Word Study
everglade
CIDE DICTIONARY
everglade, n.
A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [1913 Webster]
" When used in the United States without qualification, the word Everglades is understood to refer to the Everglades of southern Florida." [PJC]
THESAURUS
everglade
baygall, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, fen, fenland, glade, hog wallow, holm, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, peat bog, quagmire, quicksand, salt marsh, slob land, slough, sough, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, wallow, washFor further exploring for "everglade" in Webster Dictionary Online